History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
Kindness is virtue itself.
Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.